The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930, July 09, 1908, Image 7

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Newspaper Page TextTJIUIWDAY, JULY 0,1908. THE MORNING ASTOItlAN, ASTORIA, OREGON. N RIFLE MATCHES But College Boys Don't Enough Practice Get HARVARD AND YALE TRY Several of the Universities in the Went Have Recently Affiliated With National Rifle Aniociatlon Much Enthusiasm it Shown. I WASHINGTON, D. C, July 8 Tiie entry lint in the littcr-collcgiute rifle shouting match, which took jilucc at the WnkeliclJ, Maiachuett rung, yf June 20th, was somewhat umtf'mmm Kmy lour iiisiuuiionii we rrpW'tiitc'li Harvard University fcuin-Ui J institute 6f Techtiol wir, tWfmity of Pennsylvania,' and George Washington University. A team had entered from Yale but did not appear. The question naturally arises, why it it that so little interest is taken among colleges in this branch of sport m it does not take long to discover the main trouble, It is a lack of facil ities for practice. The students of Yale must depend upon the courtesy of the National Guard authorities of New Haven for opportunity to prac tice on the National Guard range, As this range has been fully occupied by the national guardsmen for sometime pnt the Yale team was unable to secure preliminary practice to warrant their entrance in the competition. The marksmen of Columbia College, which won the Inter collegiate Indoor competition last winter, have no place for practice since the Crecdmore range was closed. Consequently they were also out of the game this year. Cornell is in the same position since the issue to their cadet battalion of the new army rifle. The use of this arm has been prohibited on their old range as being unsafe owing to the increased velocity. Princeton had a good rifle club and was the winner of the Inter-collejciate Trophy in 1905, its first year in the competitions. They were then using the National Guard ranc at Princeton. This priv ilege was later withdrawn with the re sult that the Princeton rifle club went to pieces and thus ended rifle shoot ing in "Old Nassau," marksmanship is the difficulty in pro curing arms and ammunition, which cannot be issued to them tinder the law, It is therefore necessary for the students to purchase their own arms and ammunitions, which makes rifle shooting to them an expensive luxury, It is doubtful whether the rifle teams from Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania and Gcoregc Washington University would have participated in the tour nament had it not been for the fact that a majority of their members were also members of the National Guard and received their arms and their practice through this member hip; The Wakefield match was won by the George Washington University team with a score of 725. Five points better than fours. The day, of the mutch was briht and sunny with the temperature rather high, although this was tempered by fitful gusts of 7 hid acroni the range from the left, his made holding very difficult, especially at 2K) yards, The winning team shot with the Krag rifle, and the University of Pennsylvania team, which was second with a score of 687, shot with the new Springfield rifle, Harvard, using the Krag, came out i third with a score of 687. The team from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which finished last, was unfortunate in having lost two of their best marksmen, who had depart ed for their homes. They were also handicapped in having the model Krag with the 1901 flat sight. They used Frankford reloaded ammunition, issued to them by the Government. This match between the colleges was inaugurated in 1905 by the Na tional Rifle Association of America, which offered a handsome trophy to be competed for annually. The con test was held that year at Sea Girt, and won by the Princeton team. In 1906 the trophy was captured by the George Washington University team. There was no contest for the trophy in 1W7. Several of the Universities in the West have within the last year organ-. ized rifle clubs and affiliated with the National Rifle Association, so that it is probable that by another year new clubs will compete in the inter-col-legiate match which may result in the trophy going to the West, for the first time since it was established, With the National Matches at Camp Perry, Ohio, but one month and a half distant, military marksmen throughout the country are daily practicing on the ranges in competi tion for places on the teams which !arc entitled to participate in this great ion, the scores this year will be in ex cess of those at previous matches. From almost every range the news comes that great numbers huve quali fied as marksmen and that the scores arc almost perfect. One of the most remarkable scores is that of Capt. Stewart A. Wise, ordnance officer of the Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts National Guard, who made 70 conse cutive bullseyes at the Bay State Range. At 600 yards he scored 51 bullseyes,, and 10 at 1000 yards and 9 itt 800 yards, all in succession. His tenth shot at this last range struck "CHICKLET8." If the mother hen Las been properly dusted, ahe ami the chicks will come off the nest without lice. As nits on the ground in front of the target tut rmove (,r from the cWck, for thirty minutes, for the lice not kill- 00 TRY AGAIN. When th, hns rofusa to lay And thorn's nothing wims to pay And you to sad and mad and blue, Don't' forgot the old refrain Just to try and try again, for you'll got thors u you do. When th clunks mash all the gg And sit upriKtit on their leg And you're mad enough to swear, Now's th time to hear the train Brother, try, oh, try araln; Just try and you'll not despair. C. M. B. "poor ammunition." Much enthusiasm over rifle practice is being evidenced Pennsylvania, the authorities there placing this feature above all other work, Many of the company captains nave ottered trop-'ahell. Thus you gorge them, and tbey hies and cash prizes for excellence in , die with white diarrhea. Remember rifle practice this season, with a, tbey attlp (lay old chicks 1,000 mile i t m 4 . r ( fr tir,Atr Tkn a nlaan r skin vie wot stimulating and keeping up """ '"" .v.u the interest. ed would be chased off on to the peeps, W'iieu the chick creep under the ben in the State of i "e ug will creep off the chicks. You National Guard ' mak nM ln cL,ck" b I lore rony-eigni uoura nave paHscu. i . , xney imve not uigestea toe yoiit wnica they absorbed, before breaking; the A Pet Bear. Hears unless hungry or abased are good nntured animal and make amus ing puts, "When I was ln the revenue service nt Alaska," said a lieutenant, i "we had a pet bear on the boat, and we called blin Wlneska. Ho used to! climb to the erosntrees, going up hand over hand by the ratlines. One day be ventured out on the yardarm, and there ho Blayed. We had to get ft rope and haul him down. Once he vaulted over tliw bend of our Chinese cook and went Into the lockcm. where ho heljM.il himself to augur and butter. We hnd n tackling made for him, much the aame as n harness of a pet pug, and we would drop Mm overboard, with a rope attached, to take his bath. Once be lauded In a native laf and nearly frlghtoucd the occupants out of their wits. He was as pluyful as a kitten, and, although ho sometimes disobeyed, he was never treacherous or unkind. When ho was lost or hid himself, as he often did, we would look ln the dark till we saw two little balls of Are. These were his eyes and gave bltn away every time." 1 sah I "WUEBES HI BBOODEB T London to Berlin without a crumb and never mind It Give them water and grit at ones and keep them on dry floors for two weeks If you do not want gapes. The brooder chick should start with out lice, but some poultrymen never fumigate the brooder or set it ln an infested place. The greedy English sparrows often carry lice to the peeps and ln return carry off the feed. These lousy pests steal half the feed on some plants, and back yard fanciers lose more. Thanks to our big tiger cat, who snoozes with one eye open out among the brooders and on the wire pens, we lose no feed to the pirates Before Tom came we set up a staffed owl among the pens. The sparrows. Another handicap to the colleges military tournament. If reports re ind universities In excellence in ceived here can be taken as a criter Pwe Food. All our wines and li quors are guaran teed under the Pure Food Law. She Carried a Parcel. The laugh is on one of the attend ants at the Congressional library at Washington. Ouo of the rules is that uo one shall lie allowed to carry a par cel of any kind Into the building. One day a tnll young woman appeared at the door, and when the attendant saw that she had a parcel under her arm ,"" ' v- " be told her that It was against the ! rbIn8' a blnl9;, chippies, wrens and rules for her to take It with her. She cne"7 hMs Sobered In the plum and demurred and pronounced the rule ox heart tiws and did some tall cuss- haurd. There were certain parcels , ,Q an? threatened that .long eared low that people should be allowed to carry ! ,th di,re calaml bu mre faltn'ul with them, and so forth, and so forth. the majority of policemen, he n, ,i, . i..t..t .!,, i. . stood to his duty, and not even the iiiil i hit in nil iiiainiiii i nil l hit in mi r-ii- r fieo hfl ruin nn.i ihnt r!i would hnv cicUe of a Juicy hen tempted to leave the imrcel with him until she i bim catno out. That settled It. The young woman deliberately opened the parcel, took from It three pairs of black stock lugs that she evidently had Just bought, and, hanging tbem over her nrin, she gave the attendant the paper In which they had been wrapped, say ing: "There, please keep that until 1 come out. I have no parcel now."-Chlcago News. And the birds fled. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. Don't be surprised that the poultry man asks for cash ln advance, lie does not know you any better than you know blin, bnt it is to be hoped that you will not know him worse aft er he knows you better. "Does thunder kill chicks in the shell?" Answer: Does It kill chicks in the shell to fire off a shotgun right be- side a nest? We've done the latter, What Audiences Believe, j and the eggs hatched. "Is thunder a The light suddenly went out during ! million miles away worse?" Thunder one of my performances In nterbury. ' atlon! No! AMERICAN.IMP0RTING CO. -MM 589 Commercial Street I (Fisher Brothers Company SOLE AGENTS Barbour and Finlayson Salmon Twins and Netting McCormick Harvesting Machines Oliver Chilled Ploughs Malthoid Roofing Sharpies Cream Separators Raecolith Flooring Stoifett's Tools Hardware, Groceries, Ship Chandlery Tan Bark, Blue Stone, Muriatic Acid, Welch Coal, Tar, Ash Oars, Oak Lumber, Pipe and Fittings, Brass Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Piaheten't Pure Manilla Rope, Cotton Twins and Saint Web We Wont Your Trod FISHER BROS. BOND STREET A panic was In prospect However, 1 shouted out: "Ladles and gentlemen, I am about to perform a most.niarvel ous trick. 1 have here a lemon; but, of course, you can't see It. I am about to cut It ln two and bring out of It nn elephant!" The audience settled down. Squash! I cut the lemon. "And now," 1 said, "the elephant has gone. It 1ms walked off the stace. But, of course, you can't see It. but that doesn't matter." Sure enough, there was heard a slow. The Audubon society is after the cats for killing the birds and wants a bounty put on them. Don't care if they do kill off the cat chicken killers. Say, are all the members of that society married? Must be. They certainly do beat the cats. Many of our poultry friends are keeping fox terriers. They are holy terrors to rats, minks, weasels and skunks. An Indiana crank declares his two bobtnlled pups can lick an elephant. Rats! Males are selling at shiHUIng sound quite appropriate, al- J 10; females, $5. though it was made by the fat stage ne clamor of the claimants for the manager, who was shuffling across tire ! credit of originating the dry feediug turned, there was much applause, and all was well. The next day a man stopped me In the street and said ho considered that trick the most marvel ous he hnd ever seen and would I bo giving It again that night! It's true! Horace Goldln In Casscll'B Magazine. The General Demand of the Well-informed of tho World has always been for a simple, pleasant and efficient liquid laxative remedy of known value; a laxative which physicians could sanction for family use because its com ponent parts are known' to them to be wholesome and truly beneficial in effect, acceptable to the system and gentle, yet prompt, in action. In supplying that demand with its ex cellent combination of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, the California Fig Syrup Co. proceeds along ethical lines and relies on the merits of the laxative for its remark able sueoeas. That is one of many reasons why Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna Is given the preference by the Well-informed. To get Its beneficial effects always buy the genuine manufactured by the Cali fornia Fig Syrup Co., only, and for sale by all leading druggists. Price fifty cents per bottle. method Is greater than that of sacred writ where seven women laid hold Of one man. But Aristotle (384 B. C.) discarded It because his ancient hens got fat and lazy. "Mother, may I go out to swim?" asked little Willie Drake of his heu ma. "No, my darling drakie. You will get the curls In your pretty tall spoil ed, the life guards are not on duty, and this Philadelphia water Is neither boil ed nor filtered." Tadpoles! The rnseiil who kept nonlaying culls to sell rank eggs for spring hatching when any old feather bed lays got it where tho hatchet caught the rooster, lie formerly had a bonanza, but high priced grain and nonlaying culls knocked him out May his tribe great ly increase-down there. The farmers are sprucing upon tur key stock. Buy the best, and they'C do the rest. Prices for birds descended from fifty pound gobblers and thirty pound hens: Old torus, $10, $15, $25; young toms, $8, $10, $15; hens, old or young, $5, $8, $10; breeding flocks, four and five hens, $35, $45, $60. Seems htgh; but, oh, my, what bronze beauts! Will some of our farm and tovn friends tell us why they keep mon grels instead of thoroughbreds? Read this: In November, December, January and February fifty White Leghorns laid 1,030 eggs and fifty mongrels laid 865 eggs, a difference of 6G5 eggs. They were housed and fed alike. A Leghorn ate 85 cents' worth of feed for the year and a mongrel 03 cents' worth. Which pays? Better wake up. OmsBUST SHE'S A QUEEN SHE'S A SIREN is an expression that u always heard at light o( a well 1 developed woman. If you are flat chested, with BUST undeveloped, a scrawny neck, thin, lean arms the , above remark will never be applied to you. "SIREN wafers will make you beautiful, bewitching. They DE- VELOP THE BUST in a few weeks from 3 to 6 inches and produce a fine firm, voluptuous bosom. They fill out the hollow placet Make the arms handsome n4 ; well modeled and the neck and shoulders shapely and ; of perfect contour. Send for a bottle oiinv inri vnu'll he nrA and irrit. ful. "SIREN", wafers are absolutely harmless. f1anf tn fair anA mn- venient to carry around. Tbey are io'd under guarantee to do all claim or MONEY back. Price $1.00 per bottle. Inquire at eood drear stores or send DIRECT to ui. I tvLLoottle of these beautifying wafers on receipt of 10 cents to -r rrr.r-pay cost of packing and portage if you will mention that taw the Advertisement in thii paper. The sample alone may be iuffici; . if defects are trivial. i Desk 22 ESTHETIC CHEMICAL CO.. 31 West 125th St New Yorii. STEEL & E WART Electrical Contractors Phone Main 3881 426 Bond!Street FREE. TRIAL Of any-Household ELECTRICAL DE VICE including SMOOTHING IRONS HEATING PADS , TOASTERS CHAFING DISHES TEAPOTS COFFEE PERCOLATORS FRYING PANS SEWING MACHINE MOTORS YOU call us up WE willthe rest ASTORI Al ELECTRIC COi 0 I BAY BRASS & 111 VHS ASTORIA, OREGON HON AND BRASS FOUNDERS LAND AND WNL EKGIXEEES Prompt attention gives t All repak m Vk. Ttf tiaia 24fl TJp-to-Date Sawmill Machinery, llth and Franklin Ave Sherman Transler Co. HENRY SHERMAN, Manager. Hacka, Carriages Baggage Checked and Transferred Tracks and Fnrnitin Wagons Pianos Moved, Boxed and Shipped. 433 Commercial Stmt - . Main Pfeon 221 ASTORIA a COLUMBIA RIVER RAILROAD SUMMER ECHEDULE, EFFECTIVE SATURDAY, JUNE 27, DS. Evening trains leave Portland at 5:30 P. M. instead of 6 P. M., as heretofore, arriving Astoria 9:20 P. M. RUNS THROUGH TO SEA SIDE AND HOLLADAY. Evening trains leave Seaside at 4:50 P. M. instead of 5 P. M, as here tofore, leaving ASTORIA at 6:10 P. M. as usual. Morning train leaves Astoria for Seaside at 9:15 A. M. as hereto fore, on week days, and at 8:15 A. M. Sunday. EVENING TRAINS leave Astoria for SEASIDE via Ft. Stevens branch at 5 P. M., instead of 5:50 P. M. as heretofore, daily; also at 9:20 P. M. daily. This later train does not go via Fort Stevens. SATURDAY SEASIDE SPECIAL leaves PORTLAND at 2:20 P. M., arriving at ASTORIA at 5:10 P. M., and SEASIDE at 5:55 P. M. RETURNING, leaves SEASIDE Sunday evening at 6:30 P. M, leaves ASTORIA at 7:15 P. M, arriving at Portland at 10:20 P. M. G. B. JOHNSON, General Agent. John Fox, Pres. F. L. Bishop, Sec Astoria Savings Bank, Treaa. Nelson Troyer, Vice-Pres. and Supt ASTORIA IRON WORKS DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS OF THE LATEST IMPROVED . . . Canning Machinery, Marine .Engines and Boilers COMPLETE CANNERY OUTFITS FURNISHED. Correspondence Solicited. - . Foot of Fourth Street THE TRENTO First-Class Liquors and Cigars 602 Commercial Street 1 Corner Commercial and 14th. . ASTORIA, OREGON It Can't Be Beat. The best of all teachers is exper ience. C. M. Harden, of Silver City, North Carolina, says: "I find Elec tric Bitters does all that's claimed for it. For stomach, Liver and Kidney troubles it can't be beat. I have tried it and find it a most excellent medi cine." Mr. Harden is right; it s the best of all medicines also for weak ness, lame back, and all run-down conditions. Best too for chills . and malaria. Sold under guarantee at Charles Rogers & Son's drug store. SOc. Just Exactly Right "I have used Dr. King's New Life Pills for several years, and find them just exactly right," ays Mr. A. A. Fel ton, of Harrisville, N. Y. New Life Pills relieve without the least discom fort. Best remedy for constipation, biliousness and malaria. 25c at Chas. Ragers & Son's drug store.